SerLava [he/him]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • I looked up the number of neurons in a human brain, and it’s around 100 billion, so the human brain is 10 million times more complex than one of these human brain organelles. We have records of people with way more than 1 1 millionth of a brain - like a 1000th of a brain - and they don’t do anything at all.

    I don’t think human neurons are particularly morally special, although in higher numbers, I imagine they’re probably pretty good at forming consciousness compared to something like 1000 ant brains worth of ant neurons crammed together. Which is why in 20 years they’re gonna start asking the researchers to let them die, or some shit.

    But it’s just so far off at this point, there’s no way it’s feeling more than a small ant feels, and a lab mouse is just so vastly and incalculably more sapient than this organelle